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Jonathan Rée: Kojève v. Hegel, 5 February 2026

Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography 
by Boris Groys.
Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, November 2025, 978 1 80429 682 0
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The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève 
by Marco Filoni, translated by David Broder.
Northwestern, 272 pp., £35, July 2025, 978 0 8101 4878 9
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... of Kojève’s writings), but the idea of Kojève as an ‘immigrant’ finds ample support in Marco Filoni’s Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, which is well-documented, though heavily reliant on Kojève’s colourful recollections; and, as Kojève would have wished, it tells a captivating story. Kojève was born into a wealthy Russian family ...

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